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David Plotz: Why Is Judaism Such a Failure?

In his last blog, David Plotz, author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned ...

Bible Raps: Now, 100% More Free!

Matt Bar, if you’ll recall, is the world’s first Bible rapper, whom we recently profiled in Matt Bar Sees Dead ...

Authors Blog with Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning

Jewish literature is deep into a renaissance. Jewish books and Jewish authors are no longer ethnic tokens on a larger ...

Jewlicious: Five Years and Kicking

Five years ago today, the website Jewlicious stopped redirecting to dead air and became a living, functioning blog. Founder David ...

Wise Fridays: Build Many Chambers in Your Heart

All the words have been given by a single Shepherd … so you build many chambers in your heart and ...

Dvar Torah: Live, Tonight, On Stage

Tonight I’m giving a dvar torah, and I’m nervous. So I set my Twitter status to say exactly that. My ...

10 Things I Hate about Commandments

I’m a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it’s my whole Orthodox ...

Dead Sea Scrolls Signify Occupation?

I’m not much of a museum person. It’s not that I’m uncultured (I mean, I am), but I may have ...

Talmud FAIL: Yalta vs. Ulla

Most of my favorite Talmud stories center around Yalta. She’s a Talmud-era commentator who’s sometimes thought to be Rav Nachman’s ...

Wise Fridays: After I Die

Rava said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna b. Rav Yehoshua: If a written ruling of mine comes to ...

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